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An overexpression of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and FGF receptor 4 in a severe clinical phenotype of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Apr 2000
Saito A, Higuchi I, Nakagawa M, Saito M, Uchida Y, Inose M, Kasai T, Niiyama T, Fukunaga H, Arimura K, Osame M
Abstract excerpt
We evaluated the expression of a select panel of growth factors and their receptors, including fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF-1), fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2), platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), FGF receptor 1 (FGF-R1), FGF receptor 3 (FGF-R3), FGF receptor 4 (FGF-R4), PDGF receptor alpha (PDGF-Ralpha), PDGF receptor beta (PDGF-Rbeta), and heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG), in muscle biopsy specimens...
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